Huckabee: Gay-Rights Movement ‘Won’t Stop Until There Are No Churches’

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee speaks at the Conservative Political Action Committee annual conference in National Harbor, Md., Friday, March 7, 2014. Friday marks the second day of the annual Conservative Politi... Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee speaks at the Conservative Political Action Committee annual conference in National Harbor, Md., Friday, March 7, 2014. Friday marks the second day of the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, which brings together prospective presidential candidates, conservative opinion leaders and tea party activists from coast to coast. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) MORE LESS
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Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) said on Wednesday that gay-rights activists wouldn’t be satisfied until there are no more churches or Christians in America.

“It won’t stop until there are no more churches, until there are no more people who are spreading the Gospel,” Huckabee said on a right-wing radio program while discussing the backlash against anti-gay religious-freedom legislation in Arkansas and Indiana.

“I’m talking now about the unabridged, unapologetic Gospel that is really God’s truth,” he said.

Huckabee made the remarks during an appearance on the conservative Family Research Council radio program “Washington Watch with Tony Perkins.”

Earlier in the program, he accused critics of the legislation of engaging in “true discrimination” and seizing on a “manufactured” crisis.

Listen below via Right Wing Watch:

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  1. Avatar for wwss wwss says:

    You know, I think this man has been sitting too close to Michell Bachmann.

  2. Guess he couldn’t be “out-dumbed” by his fellow Arkansan, Sen. Cotton

  3. So mikey…Projecting a little now? Seeing as how you RWNJ socons won’t rest in your crusade to stamp them out until there are no gays?

  4. “I don’t actually have the guts, brains, smarts, or self-discipline to serve as President, so I can say stupid unsupportable things that make frightened elderly low-information voters and morons send me money.”

  5. Rowan Williams tells ‘persecuted’ western Christians to grow up

    Christians in Britain and the US who claim that they are persecuted should “grow up” and not exaggerate what amounts to feeling “mildly uncomfortable”, according to Rowan Williams, who last year stepped down as archbishop of Canterbury after an often turbulent decade.

    “When you’ve had any contact with real persecuted minorities you learn to use the word very chastely,” he said. “Persecution is not being made to feel mildly uncomfortable. ‘For goodness sake, grow up,’ I want to say.”

    True persecution was “systematic brutality and often murderous hostility that means that every morning you wonder if you and your children are going to live through the day”. He cited the experience of a woman he met in India “who had seen her husband butchered by a mob”.

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